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The body of this work was first published in the UK in 1988; this is a reprint of a 1992 edition (Guilford Press), which includes a brief foreword by Juliet Mitchell. Welldon (Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, UK) is a psychiatrist specializing in sexual perversion; her book made waves when it first appeared, because it counters common assumptions about female psychopathology. She explores how a disturbed infant/mother relationship lies at the root of both male and female perversions, but is expressed in quite different ways in women, by self-mutiliation or child abuse. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Motherhood confers immense powers, whick some women misuse because of their own emotional problems and the social expectations placed upon them. In these unfortunate cases, mothers may batter, commit incest, or prevent their children from understanding or accepting their core gender-identity. Estela Welldon believes that mothers often see their children as extensions of themselves, and that this type of mistreatment is a form of self-inflicted wound.
About the Author
Estela V. Welldon is an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy at Tavistock and Portman NHS Clinics. She is the Founder and the Honorary Life President of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy. In 1997, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Science by Oxford Brookes University. Welldon works privately as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and organizational consultant. She is a Member of the British Association for Psychotherapy, the British Psychoanalytic Council, the Institute of Group Analysis, the American Group Psychotherapy Association and the International Association for Group Psychotherapy. She is the author of Mother, Madonna, Whore: The Idealization and Denigration of Motherhood (1988) and Sadomasochism (2002) and is the main editor of A Practical Guide to Forensic Psychotherapy (1997).
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- PublisherOther Pr Llc
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 189274662X
- ISBN 13 9781892746627
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages192
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Softcover. Condition: As New. Motherhood confers immense powers, whick some women misuse because of their own emotional problems and the social expectations placed upon them. In these unfortunate cases, mothers may batter, commit incest, or prevent their children from understanding or accepting their core gender-identity. Estela Welldon believes that mothers often see their children as extensions of themselves, and that this type of mistreatment is a form of self-inflicted wound. Seller Inventory # SKU2010029220
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